I have Trump Derangement Syndrome – and you probably do too ...Middle East

In mathematics, derangement theory is the permutation of elements in which no constituent part appears in its original position. It is a form of disorder in which there are no fixed points.

This may also be the most accurate description of America’s current political settlement: established realities and proprieties have been shifted by Donald Trump to such an extent that politics has no fixed points, no centre of gravity. Anything goes.

And so, it is that “derangement” that has become Trump’s mot juste this week, but obviously not in relation to his own words and deeds. No, we are the deranged ones, the ones who stand against his particular brand of cruel and triumphalist populism.

What Trump said in reaction to the tragic deaths this week of film director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele was, by any historic standards, unconscionable. In a social media post, President Trump seemed to suggest that Reiner was to blame for his own demise with his “unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump.” (The use of upper case was his, not mine.)

We shouldn’t just dismiss this as a subversion of basic decency – a serving President of the United States reacting to the death of a public figure by implying, before the facts were known, that Reiner’s vociferous opposition to his administration played a part in his death. This was much more sinister than that. It was from chapter one of The Handbook for Dictators: look what happens when you oppose me.

And his speech to the American people last night continued the theme. He simply could not understand why anyone would doubt his achievements. At home, he was bringing down prices for the domestic consumer (even though the inflation rate is slightly higher now than it was when he took over), while his foreign policy had succeeded in ending “eight” wars and bringing “peace to the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years”. Yet we are the ones supposed to be deranged.

In one sense, the popularisation of TDS is a neat moving of the fixed points by Trump. He is attempting to turn dissent into a medical condition by calling it a syndrome. In so doing, he transforms a rational response to a uniquely divisive and disruptive figure into a personality flaw on the part of his critics. Opposition to his administration can be dismissed as the rantings of people who are psychologically disturbed.

But what about Trump Debasement Theory? OK, this is not a real thing, but maybe it should be. This is the serious postulation that, in the course of his presidency, Trump has so degraded the office he holds, and so corrupted public discourse, that it’s impossible to locate a moral compass, and, in any case, it is futile to resist him. We are no longer shocked by what he says, does or posts and have become intellectually anaesthetised to his actions. And this is a much more dangerous state of affairs.

Trump may be right, of course. Maybe we have become, to a greater or lesser extent, deranged over the course of his leadership. Some of us may have lost perspective, and some have even lost friends.

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In 2017, Rob Reiner said: “Donald Trump is the single most unqualified human being to ever assume the presidency of the United States. He is mentally unfit. Not only does he not understand how government works, he has no interest in trying to find out how it works.”

This may be catalogued by Donald Trump’s supporters as one of the first sightings of TDS. Yet for the rest of us, it’s merely the observations of a politically active citizen who cares about the direction his country is taking.

And so, into this yawning divide between derangement and democracy have tumbled reasoned debate, decency and the long-established virtues of American politics.

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